Director, Engineering

Location: Somerville, Massachusetts

Department: Engineering

A career at Paint Nite means you’ll breathe creativity, indulge your curiosity, and drive innovation on a daily basis. As an expanding, international business with a start-up mentality, we thrive on tough challenges, encourage dynamic job descriptions, and empower every employee to make a lasting difference. Ranked the second fastest-growing company in the country on the Inc. 500 in 2016, we’re not slowing down any time soon. With a new CEO at the helm and major investments in our tech, product, and marketing teams (to name a few), we’re looking for ambitious and enthusiastic people to help make Paint Nite even bigger and better.

Paint Nite offers professional advancement opportunities, great benefits, and flexible vacation. Our brand-new 24,000 square-foot office is just minutes from the Porter Square T station and features workout facilities, a large recreational space, and an open-concept design. Paint Nite prides itself on a culture of collaboration, innovation, and community that unites employees around the common goal of growing our best-in-class company. ​

We are looking for an experienced Director of Engineering with a blend of leadership and technical knowledge to lead a team of talented developers. The Director will also partner with Leadership and the Product Team to understand Paint Nite’s vision and execute on our key technology objectives in a timely manner.

You will:

collaborate with our Executive Leadership to understand the goals of the business, and drive that vision for the Company by prioritizing the critical objectives for our Tech Team

lead a team of seven developers; through providing mentorship and resources when needed

measure the Team’s performance by creating metric based goals, tied directly to development and quality, for the team to strive for

track development timelines, and negotiates feature sets with the Product Team

define the technical direction for the product

set code standards and ensure quality and production ready code

deliver quality results within rapid build and release cycles

work with the Director of QA & DevOps to ensure quality releases

ensure the software we produce meets best practices for quality, security, modifiability, and extensibility

be the voice of the Tech Team; communicating effectively with technical and non-technical staff

participate in production support & site support response as necessary

You have:

experience leading a small to mid-sized team of developers and a proven leadership ability and evidence of positively influencing cross-functional teams

partnered with senior leadership to understand the Company’s vision and identify the priorities your team must execute to achieve business objectives

8+ years of Full-Stack Web Development experience

experience with a modern JavaScript framework (preferably React)

experience with SQL Databases such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc.

comfort with multiple styles of API: SOAP, REST, and GraphQL

proficiency with Python and Node.js

experience with modern mobile web technologies, approaches and concepts, such as responsive and adaptive web design, React, Webpack, SASS, and PostCSS.

a deep understanding of the entire web development process, from brainstorming and design to implementation and launch

experience building business systems based on digital marketing and SEO, credit card processing,

product selection and purchase, accounting and reporting.

experience in an Agile environment (plus if experienced with Kanban).

You are:

a natural, results-driven leader and accomplished developer who has pioneered a team to achieve company goals

a Node.JS expert, and experienced at finding solutions to complex problems

a confident decision-maker when necessary, you also value the opinions from other subject-matter experts

motivated by client satisfaction

able to recognize process flaws or areas of improvement, and are capable of influencing and implementing change

instinctually metrics driven and have used KPI’s to motivate and improve quality

passionate about motivating and professionally growing skills of the Tech Team as well as each person individually

Physical Demands:

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit for long periods of time; talk or hear; perform fine motor, hand and finger skills in the use of a keyboard, telephone, or writing. The employee is frequently required to stand; walk; and reach with arms and/or hands. Specific vision abilities include close vision, distance vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus. The employee will spend their time in an office environment with a quiet to moderate noise level.

WHO WE ARE

Paint Nite® is invading local bars and restaurants across the US and Canada with a new way to go out, have fun, and feel good. It’s everything a great night should be—friends, drinks, and laughter. Plus, you’ll create a one-of-a-kind painting (we make it so easy!) along with the memory of a unique night out.